HSMAI members listed “Acquiring and retaining qualified sales professionals” as one of their top challenges in the last two membership surveys. In an effort to assist members in attracting new talent to the hospitality sales and marketing profession, and in filling open positions, HSMAI is part of the Marketing Career Network (MCN) to enhance the HSMAI Career Center. The MCN is an alliance of trade and professional associations with a combined registered membership of over 100,000 marketing, advertising and sales professionals with reach to over 750,000 industry practitioners. The MCN includes a searchable resume database of nearly 27,000 resumes.

HSMAI members can post open positions that will automatically be listed on all MCN Partner Career Centers at no extra charge, and at significantly discounted rates. In addition HSMAI members now have access to exclusive Career Development resources, such as resume critique and career coaching services in the HSMAI Career Center. For more information go to https://careers.hsmai.org/jobseekers/.

The new HSMAI Career Center features:

For Employers:

• • Quick and easy job posting

• • Quality candidates

• • Online reports with job activity statistics

• • Simple pricing options

• • Special introductory pricing*

For Job Seekers:

• • Free resume posting

• • Career Development Resources including free resume critique

• • Advanced job searching options

• • Increased exposure for your resume

• • Optional email alerts of new jobs

Marketing Career Network (MCN) partners include:

• • American Advertising Federation

• • American Marketing Association

• • Business Marketing Association

• • New York American Marketing Association

• • NYAMA Effie

• • NYAMA GreenBook

• Promotion Marketing Association

*Job postings cost $200 for a 30-day listing. Package discounts are available for multiple job postings. Employers can also search the resume database for one month for $300, three months for $800, and a year for $1,600.